device driver
English
Noun
device driver (plural device drivers)
- (computing) Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer and a specific hardware device.
- 1978, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unix Time-Sharing System, page 2064:
- The identity of the device driver process is returned by the process manager to the file manager […]
Translations
software that communicates between operating system and hardware
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